I want to recover data from an old 10.5.8 internal drive using 10.8

After five years of service my old 2007-era MacBook fell victim to a liquid spill which shorted the motherboard. I had put off a system upgrade for a while and was still working with 10.5.8. I purchased a new MacBook Air yesterday and immediately upgraded it to the latest OS (10.8)
I carefully removed the hard drive from the old 2007 MacBook. Most of the files on it were backed up to the cloud, but a very important few (the latest) didn't make it. If possible, I'd like to retrieve these files.
So I purchased a SATA-to-USB cable and CAREFULLY grounded myself while connecting the old internal boot drive (which boots 10.5.8) to the MacBook Air (which boots 10.8.)
The drive shows up in Disk Utility as follows (it's confusingly named "ssd"):
However, disk utility will not permit me to verify or repair the file.
2012-08-01 14:59:39 -0400: Verify and Repair volume “ssd”
2012-08-01 14:59:39 -0400: Starting repair tool:
2012-08-01 15:03:49 -0400: Repairing volume failed: Unrecognized file system.
So I go into the terminal to check the permissions. Using "ls -al" I get this:
So the drive is there, but is not mounted, and has neither read nor write access for any user, and Disk Utility is not recognizing the file system. Is this a backwards-compatibility problem?
NOTE: I could try booting from the old internal disk directly. However, this drive doesn't show up as an option in the "Startup Disk" folder, and I'm reluctantly to boot an Air on 10.5.8.

That may work, if the file permissions will allow it.  And it will work for "simple" applications, but not "complex" ones, that came with their own installers. See Transferring  Applications.   Complex apps must be transferred via Setup Assistant or Migration Assistant, or reinstalled from the original discs or downloads.

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